Anyone can notify about bugs in WordPress using Trac, where also anyone can submit patches to fix them. When someone actually submits a patch which is later on approved by head developers and included in WordPress' core, the changelog contains a tiny credit to them: "props Joti" for example (props meaning something like thanks, yeepee, kudos, or respect).
Do you know the people, or more likely some of the people, who helped in making your blogware and beloved WordPress more reliable, more usable, more bloggable? I thought it would be nice giving some props to these fine WordPress bug fixers, so I went for some digging and made up the WordPress Bug Fixers Heat Map (aka Cloud)
Method: fetch, parse, cloudify.
Disclaimer: Stats are often meaningless and deceiving. The above cloud is in no way representative of anything, and of submitters' quality above all. Your name may or may not appear. My warm thank you to all of the bug submitters.
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Woot at my nick size! :D
Impressive! (Both the cloud and the size of my nick ;) )
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Great visualisation Ozh! It's a close call between Nazgul and mdawaffe.
Very cool!
You have a bug somewhere I think because foolswisdom is so small ;-) Smaller for example than Erik Barzeski, who is a fantastic contributer, but I submitting trivial patches to game your system!
Seriously, though this is good fun. And one lens to apply to see a small slice of hundreds of thousands of people that contribute to WordPress in significant ways!
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Sometimes, the devs used different commit messages than "props", like "thanks" or "hat tip". Did you count those?
Thank you very much staffs and volunteers, you all simplified my blogging life with the great WordPress!
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